The following letters are in response to Anthony Pignataro’s May 17, 2012 cover story “This Year Terryl Vencl wants the County to give the Maui Visitors Bureau $3.5 million.” * * * As a representative for an organization that received an Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) grant, also overseen by Teena Rasmussen’s county Office of Economic Development (OED), I find the … [Read more...] about Readers Sound Off on the Maui Visitors Bureau
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Here is Why The County of Maui Should not Give Terryl Vencl and the Maui Visitors Bureau Three and a Half Million Dollars
The story goes that Terryl Vencl spends a lot of time at Maui County Council budget hearings. Supposedly, she’s there every day, during the spring months when the council painstakingly reviews its proposed budget, which is hovering between $550 million and $560 million. It makes sense, because Vencl, the executive director of the Maui Visitors Bureau (MVB), has a lot riding on … [Read more...] about Here is Why The County of Maui Should not Give Terryl Vencl and the Maui Visitors Bureau Three and a Half Million Dollars